Ezra Chapter 10 verse 17 Holy Bible
And they made an end with all the men that had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
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And they got to the end of all the men who were married to strange women by the first day of the first month.
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And they ended with all the men that had taken foreign wives by the first day of the first month.
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And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.
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And they made an end with all the men that had taken foreign wives by the first day of the first month.
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They made an end with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
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and they finish with all the men who have settled strange women unto the first day of the first month.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - They made an end with all the men. They ran through the whole list of those who were accused of having taken strange wives, and adjudicated on every case, by the first day of the first month, Nisan, corresponding nearly with our April. Deducting Sabbaths, the number of days in the three months would be seventy-five or seventy-six; but it is of course possible that the court did not sit continuously. THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO HAD MARRIED THE STRANGE WIVES (vers. 18-44). Aware of the danger that the nation might relapse into the sin which he was seeking to root out, Ezra punishes the wrong-doers by placing their names on record, that others might fear to do the like. He assigns the first place in his catalogue of offenders to the priests, doubtless because in them the sin was greatest; they, as the special custodians of the Law, were most bound to have observed the Law. Next to the priests he puts the Levites, on the same principle, because of their semi-sacerdotal character. He then concludes with the laymen, arranged under their several families. By the list of laymen it appears that ten only out of some thirty-six lay families were implicated in the sin. Three of the four priestly families, on the other hand, and even the near-kindred of the high priest, were among the guilty. It is remarkable that it is Ezra, a priest, and one by many accused of over-sacerdotalism, who gives this testimony against his own order.
